History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 69

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
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Number of Pages: 678

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One of these sons, Uriah Kail, became the father of David M. Call. He was born in

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Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1825, and died there in 1873. He learned the trade of wagonmaking from his father, and worked at it in Rumley and Jefferson town- ships. His wife, Maria Miser, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of David Miser, who was a tanner of Jefferson County. Mrs. Kail was one in the following children : William, David, Henry, Elizabeth, Maria, Cath- erine, Mary and Maggie. All were Lutherans in religious belief. Uriah Kail and his wife had the following children born to them : Eliza- beth, David M., Margaret, Alexander and Eva Jane. Mrs. Kail belonged to the Reformed Church.

Growing up in German Township, David M. Kail attended the district schools and learned to be a farmer. His initial experience in farm- ing was acquired in German Township, and he continued to be engaged in that calling during all of his active years, in time becoming the owner of eighty-two acres of land in that town- ship. In 1916 he retired and moved to Ger- mano.

In 1890 Mr. Kail was united in marriage with Maria Bell Stringer, a daughter of William and Isabell Stringer, of Adena, Ohio, and she died August 4, 1918, leaving a wide circle of warm, personal friends to mourn her loss. Mr. Kail belongs to Knights of Pythias of Jefferson.

T. NEWELL OSBORNE has been since 1911 one of the interested principals in the Spence-Rob- erts Company, which conducts a well appointed and splendidly equipped general merchandise establishment in the Village of Jewett, Harrison County, and he has served continuously as vil- lage clerk since 1914. He is deeply interested in all that touches the civic and material wel- fare and progress of his home village and native county, and is one of the representative business men of the younger generation in Harrison County. For the greater part of the time since leaving college he has been associated with the mercantile business with which he is now con- nected and in which he has been a stockholder since 1911.

Mr. Osborne was born at Jewett on the 18th of August, 1883, and his personal popularity in his native place sets at naught any application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is . not without honor save in his own country." He is a son of Richie and Susan Maria (Ram- sower) Osborne, and in the public schools of Jewett he continued his studies until his gradu- ation from the high school as a member of the class of 1900. Thereafter he was for two years a student in Scio College, and the greater part of the time since leaving school has found him allied with the mercantile enterprise in which he is now a partner, as previously noted. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, be is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Scio, where he and his wife also hold membership in the adjunct chapter of the Order of the Eastern Str. in their home village they are active .ommuni- cants of the Lutheran Church.

The 19th of March, 1913. recorded the mar- viage of Mr. Osborne to Miss Augusta Yost,

who was born in Short Creek Township, Harri- son County, and who is a daughter of the late Elias and Ann (Macklin) Yost, the former of whom was born in Frederick County, Virginia, December 2, 1805, and the latter of whom was born in County Armagh, Ireland, December 2. 1842, and who was a young woman when she came to America and established her residence in Ohio. Mr. Yost died December 2, 1896 on the ninety-first anniversary of his birth. and his widow passed away on the 21st of May, 1901.

The Yost family, of German origin, was founded in America in the colonial period, and representatives of the same were valiant sol- diers of the Continental line in the War of the Revolution. Michael and Rachel (Keckley) Yost. grandparents of Mrs. Osborne, were born and reared in Virginia, and in 1806 they came with wagon and five-horse team from the Old Dominion State to Harrison County, Ohio, where they settled in the midst of the forest wilds near the present village of Harrisville. They endured the full tension of frontier life and did well their part in the initial stages of development and progress in this now favored section of the Buckeye State. The substantial brick house which Michael Yost erected on his pioneer farm is still standing, and is one of the venerable landmarks of Harrison County. He was born November 3, 1776, and died on the 2d of February, 1849, his wife, who was born in 1780, having survived him by only seventeen days, both having been devout com- municants of the Lutheran Church. Of their eleven children ten attained to years of ma- turity, and the family name has been proml- nently and worthily identified with the history of Harrison County since the early pioneer period.

Elias Yost, the seventh child, was not yet one year old at the time of the family migra- tion to Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and where he became one of the substantial farmers and influential citi- zens of the community in the vicinity of Harris- ville. A man of fine character, he commanded the respect of all who knew him, and in his patriarchal years had the pleasure of being the head of a numerous family representing three generations. He first married Kezia Kithcart, who was born in 1812, in Pennsyl- vania, and who died in 1878, after having be- came the mother of eleven children. In 1880 Mr. Yost married Miss Ann Macklin, and they became the parents of two daughters, of whom Mrs. Augusta Osborne is the younger. The parents were numbered among the most vener- able and honored pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of their deaths. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have two children-Newell Yost, born November 10, 1914, and Katherine, born October 19, 1916.

JAMES C. ANDERSON. One of the enterprising agriculturists of Harrison County, James C. Anderson, of Rumley Township, has been en- gaged for the past forty years in breeding blooded Clydesdale horses, and he has also de- voted himself to raising a diversified line of

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crops and other stock, achieving very gratify- ing results in all of his undertakings. He was born in Rumley Township April 10, 1850, a son of James and Violet (Caldwell) Anderson, and grandson of John Anderson.

John Anderson was born in Ireland. but came to the United States when his son James was twelve years of age, setting out from Belfast for the trip across the ocean. After arriving in this country he located in Washington County, Pennsylvania, but later moved to Jef- ferson County, Ohio, and about 1849 the family moved to Rumley Township. Harrison County, where John Anderson lived until his death. His children were as follows: Ellen. Mary. Bell, Andrew, Richard, Wiliam, John and James, all of whom were born in Ireland. The family all belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.

James Anderson was a farmer of Rumley Township for practically his entire life, al- though his last days were passed at Kilgore, Carroll County. Ohio. His wife was born at Cannonsburg, Washington County, Pennsyl- vania, and they had the following children : James C., whose name appears at the head of this review : and Violet, who has never married and lives at Canton, Ohio.

James C. Anderson attended the local schools of his native township. as well as those of German Township, and in Lee Township, Car- roll County, and at the same time learned how to be a practical farmer under his father's ex- perienced supervision. In 1877 Mr. Anderson located on his present farm and now owns 219 acres of land in one piece. Although he is generally recognized as a successful farmer, it is as a breeder of Clydesdale horses that he is best known.

On December 29, 1872. Mr. Anderson married Lydia A. Levengood, a daughter of Jacob Levengood, and they had the following children : Olive Ellen, who was born January 15, 1874, married Newton Dutton, now deceased, and they had one child, Jesse Scott Dutton, whose mili- tary record is given below; Annie Bell, who was born March 14, 1876, died August 10, 1876; Jesse L., who was born December 20, 1879, married Susie Montgomery, and they have two sons, Robert and George, and live with Mr. Anderson on the home farm: and Lydia E., who was born October 2, 1887, died January 25. 1888. Mrs. Anderson died November 7, 1890. In 1891 Mr. Anderson was married to Lena Beck, a daughter of Louis and Dora (Shantz) Beck. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Reformed Church and active in its work. They have no children of their own, but about 1904 they took into their home a thirteen months-old baby, Charles Otto Fleming. Later they adopted him and he is known as Charles Otto Anderson.

Jesse Scott Dutton, grandson of James C. Anderson, is a veteran of the great war. He entered the service April 30, 1918, and was sent to Camp Sherman for his training, and while there was assigned to Company F, Three Hun- dred and Eighth Engineers, Eighty-third Di- vision. On June 3, 1918, he left New York City harbor with his organization for overseas, and landed at Liverpool, England, June 15, from

whence he went on to France by way of South- ampton, England, landing at Havre on June 20. While in France he served with his organiza- tion in the Aisne-Marne offensive from July 28 to August 6; the Oisne-Aisne offensive from August 18 to September 9; the Meuse-Argonne offensive from September 26 to November 11. From December 13, 1918 to May 20. 1919, he served at Neustadt, Germany. Mr. Dutton ar- rived in the United States on his way home June 26, 1919, and received his honorable dis- charge July 8, 1919, at Camp Sherman. Ohio. He is the only member of Mr. Anderson's family who came within the military age of the first draft. and naturally all of the Andersons as well as the Duttons are very proud of him and deeply grateful that he is not one of the brave American boys whose white crosses in France have created so many gold stars at home.

JOHN B. STEWART. The qualities of adapta- bility, persistence, common sense and good judgment have prevailed in the energetic life of John B. Stewart. of Freeport Township, Harrison County, winning for him an enviable position among the business, civic and social elements of his community. While he is the owner of a farm, he has passed his life at the carpenter trade. He was born in Freeport Township May 14, 1868, a son of George W. and Mary ( Booth) Stewart.

James Stewart, the great-grandfather of John B. Stewart, was born in Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneers into Freeport Township, Harrison County, but after a short stay re- moved with his wife. Mary. and children into Tuscarawas County, Ohio. where his death oc- curred. He had a family of nine children : John, George. Samuel, James. Andrew. William, Mary, Catherine and Massie. Of these chil- dren James Stewart, the grandfather of John B., was born in Pennsylvania, and was a child when he accompanied his parents to Harrison and later to Tuscarawas County, in which latter he passed the rest of his life as an agricultur- ist and became a well-known and highly-re- spected citizen. He married Mary Randall, who was born in Guernsey County. Ohio, and they became the parents of five children : Amanda, Ananias C .. George W. and Thomas Benton, twins, and Marilda.

George W. Stewart, father of John B., was born in Washington Township. Tuscarawas County, Ohio, March 31. 1839. and as a young man worked on a farm and in a sawmill, later learning the trade of carpenter. He was mar- ried in 1862 to Mary Booth, who was born in Tuscarawas County, a daughter of John and Nancy ( Hart) Booth and in 1865 removed to Freeport Township. Harrison County, where from 1865 to 1873 he was proprietor of the Freeport Mill. For about four years he was engaged in farming in that community, but in 1877 returned to Tuscarawas County, where he conducted a sawmill until 1890 and then came back to Freeport Township, Harrison County, where he farmed and worked at the carpenter trade. In 1911 he retired from active pursuits, having accumulated a competence, and moved

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to the Town of Freeport. For some years he continued to accept small contracts as a car- penter, but since 1919 has lived quietly in his comfortable home. Mrs. Stewart died in 1870. having been the mother of four children : Addie, who died young: Ella. the widow of Porter Mitchell : John B .; and William, who died in infancy. In 1872 Mr. Stewart was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Leeper, daughter of Moses and Rachel (Carr) Leeper, and they had five children : Allan, who is deceased : Al- fred, a resident of New Philadelphia, Ohio; Thomas, who resides in Iowa; Carlton, who lives at New Philadelphia : and George. a resi- dent of Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are con- sistent members of the Presbyterian Church of Freeport.

John B. Stewart attended the public schools of Freeport, and when a young man adopted his father's trade of carpenter, which he has followed throughout his life. In all parts of the country surrounding Freeport are found evidences of his skill and ingenuity, and he has always adhered to the principle that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, with the consequence that he has a reputation as a careful, skillful and reliable workman. He is esteemed also for his integrity and moral worth, and for his consideration and fairness as an employer of labor. He is the owner of a farm of 100 acres, which is being operated by his sons.

In 1890 Mr. Stewart married Miss Mary Rowland. a daughter of James and Mellle Ann (Tool) Rowland. born in Cadiz Township. Har- rison County. James Rowland's first wife was Jane, a daughter of Jacob and Jane Heflin. As a young man James Rowland started farming in Cadiz Township, but about 1880 removed to Freeport Township, where he carried on opera- tions until his death in 1917. By his first marriage he had seven children : George, Nancy, Sarah, Jacob, W. R., Hannah and Lydia. His children by his second marriage were Kennedy. Mary. Jennie, Alice, Thomas, James and Jessie. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart : Everett deceased. Earl B., Ray. Ella and Dewey. Earl B. Stewart enlisted in the United States Army September 19, 1917, and after intensive training was sent overseas to France June 4, 1918. as corporal of Company F. Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers of the Eighty-third Division. He participated in the battles of the Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne. Meuse and Argonne, returned to the United States June 26. 1919. and was honorably dis- charged with a splendid record, July 7, 1919. at Camp Sherman. Since his return from foreign battlefields this brave young soldier has an- plied himself to the duties of peace, and is assisting his brothers in the cultivation of his father's farm.

WILLIAM C. GUNNELL. When he was but thirteen years old William C. Gunnell, super- intendent of the Cadiz Flouring Mills, began working as a miller's apprentice, and be bas been "in the grind" practically all of his life. Since 1902 he has lived in Cadiz. Mr. Gunnell was born January 5, 1866, in Eaton County,

Michigan, although his father. Thomas Gunnell, came from England. He married Sarepta Brummeling in the State of New York and they located on a farm in Michigan. He was a contractor and builder as well as farmer. He died in Eaton County in 1871 and Mrs. Gunnell died in 1910 in Litchfield. The oldest son, Wil- liam C. Gunnell, lived in Harrison County sev- eral years. His brother. Frank H. Gunnell, lives in Great Falls, Montana, and Fred T. lives in Detroit.

Thomas Gunnell died, and the mother mar- ried Charles Rozell, and there is a daughter, Vera, wife of John Berry. The Gunnell chil- dren had common school education in Eaton County. Michigan, but while yet a school boy. W. C. Gunnell was learning the miller's trade. In the old days of the water mill it was always said the miller had fat hogs and yet no one knew whose corn fattened them. as the miller took toll from all the grists, but in these days of steam mills nothing is ever said about it.

When Mr. Gunnell came to Cadiz he was superintendent of the Cadiz Flouring Mills, but in 1906 he bought the property, and he now buys wheat and grinds it. The Moss Rose Flour is known to the trade, and Mr. Gunnell has established himself as an expert manu- facturer of the best flour on the market today.

In November, 1889. Mr. Gunnell married Minnie B. Reed, a daughter of Henry Reed. Their two daughters. Catharine and Martha, are deceased. Catherine was the wife of Stew- art Yonnelly. but Martha died in childhood.

W. C. Gunnell is a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias Lodges, and with his wife he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Cadiz. While his early life was spent in Michigan he is now identified with the business interests of Harrison County. There is no industry more necessary to the prosperity of any community than a well conducted flour- ing mill. and Cadiz is fortunate in having Mr. Gunnell connected with its flour industry.

JOHN P. LIGGETT. When a man has always lived in one community he is interested in its history. John P. Liggett, the Green Township farmer and contractor. was born December 21. 1859. and has always lived in the vicinity of Hopedale. He owns a farm of 279 acres in Green Township. just outside the Hopedale cor- poration. and he also owns farm land in Jeffer- son County.

Mr Liggett is a son of Theodore Liggett, who was born September 11. 1830, at Wellsburg. West Virginia. He married Nancy Maholm, of Cadiz Township, who was one year younger than himself. She was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy ( Delaney) Maholin. She died Feb- ruary 5. 1912. rnd Mr. Liggett died February 8, two years later. Samuel Maholm was born July 12, 1801, in Cadiz Township-territorial days in Harrison County, Ohio. His wife, Nancy Delaney, was a Maryland woman. They were Harrison County pioneera, taking up Gov- ernment land one mile east of Cadiz.

A few years after their marriage in Cadiz Township, where he had always lived, Samuel

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Maholm and his wife removed to Holmes County. In 1852 he was killed by a falling tree. Their children were: Eliza Jane, born July 25, 1823; James, May 10, 1825; William, August 7, 1827; Martha, July 30, 1829; Nancy, May 9, 1831 ; Margaret, March 16, 1833; Albina, March 18, 1835; Deborah, July 12. 1838; John, May 16, 1840; Cyrus, May 31, 1842; Maria, May 31, 1845; and Charlotte, July 10, 1847. The above list is an interesting study since there are twelve children, with regular inter- vals between them, the first birth occurring in July and the last in the same month twenty- four years later.

In the Liggett ancestry, Samuel Liggett, the grandfather of John P. Liggett, was born in 1803 in Maryland. His wife, Jennie Stock- holm, was born the same year in the same com- munity. He died in 1860, while she lived until 1893, and was ninety. They came to Annapolis, Harrison County, in 1825 from Maryland. As a young man Samuel Liggett went to Wellsburg, West Virginia, but after a few years he re- turned to Green Township, Harrison County.

The Liggett children of that generation were Theodore, Isaac. Sarah, Hannah, William. Mahala, John. Otho and Samuel. The four older sons were Civil war soldiers, as were some of the Maholm brothers. John P. Liggett is a son of the oldest child in the above sched- uled family, and as a young man Theodore Liggett learned the trade of shoemaker. His three years' apprenticeship was served in Steubenville. In 1848 he came to Hopedale and opened a boot and shoe shop, which he operated until 1883, thirty-five years as a shoemaker in one community. He must have made and cob- bled shoes for the fathers and mothers and all the brothers and sisters for miles around Hope- dale.

In 1883 Mr. Liggett opened a retail shoe store and conducted it until 1905, and thus he was a shoe dealer almost fifty years in Hopedale. In his last days Mr. Liggett was associated with his son John P., who was then a horse buyer. He engaged in the horse business as a young man, buying, selling and shipping, but the time came when there was little market for horses. In 1910 Mr. Liggett dropped out of the horse market and began contract work, building roads, walks and pavements-all kinds of cement work, and he continues his residence at the farmstead.

The children in the Theodore Liggett house- hold are: Jeannette, born December 21. 1851; Jane, February 21, 1853; Henrietta, May 24, 1855: John F., June 14, 1857; John P., Decem- ber 21, 1859; Bessie, February 14, 1861; Theo- dore, Jr., June 13, 1866; Nathan, October 18, 1869; George W., August 15, 1870; Stewart, June 10, 1873; Charles, March 21, 1874; and William, May 2, 1876. Here is another family of twelve born in the period of a little more than twenty-five years.

The Liggetts are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Liggett spent three years and six months in the service in the Civil war. He was a member of the Seventy-Fourth Infantry and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga.

On January 27, 1886, John P. Liggett mar- ried Clara Belle Patton. She is a daughter of Ross J. and Elizabeth (Goodlin) Patton. Mr. Patton was born September 12, 1843, in Rumley Township, and his wife came from Knoxville, Jefferson County. Soon after their marriage they removed from Harrison County, Ohio, to Iowa, but in a short time returned to Harrison County. The Pattons then moved to Jefferson County, where he was a miller for ten years. From Jefferson County they removed to Ra- venna, and still live there. He was a Civil war soldier in the One Hundred and Twenty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He spent three years in the service.

Mrs. Liggett is the oldest of the Patton chil- dren, and she has a brother, Edward, and a sister, Ina D. Patton. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Liggett are: Anna Vesta, wife of Albert Liggett. Their children are: Donald, Lamoin, William, Carl, Ross and LeRoy. Hazel Liggett is the wife of George Brickner. of Buffalo, New York. They have a daughter, Harriet. Helen May Liggett is the wife of William Wilson, of Buffalo. Their children are June and John. The Liggett family are mem- bers of the Christian Church in Hopedale. Mr. Liggett is a member of the Board of Dea- cons. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Germano.

BINGHAM C. SCOTT has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth and since 1808 has conducted a substantial and flourishing general merchandise business in the Village of Germano, German Township, where he is known as a representative merchant and as a loyal and progressive citizen. He was born at Hopedale, this county, on the 25th of September, 1870, and is a son of Allen W. and Betha Jane . ( Croskey) Scott. He wbose name initiates this review was afforded the advan- tages of the public schools of Cadiz, the judicial center of the county, where he continued his studies in the high school until he was well qualified to assume a share of responsibility in connection with the practical duties and respon- sibilities of life. As a youth he became a clerk in a general merchandise establishment at Cadiz, and in this connection he gained an excellent knowledge of the details of this line of mercantile enterprise. In 1898 he estab- lished himself in the general merchandise busi- ness at Germano, where his personal popularity and the effective service given by his well equipped store have gained to the establishment a large and appreciative patronage.

In politics, though never desirous of official preferment, Mr. Scott is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the United Presbyterian Church in their home village. He is a member of Unionport Lodge No. 333 F. & A. M .; Corson Lodge of Perfection (14º S. R.) ; Center Council (16° S. R.), and Drummond Chapter (Rose Croix 18° S. R.). His father was also a mem- ber of Unionport Lodge.

On May 10, 1894, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Scott to Miss Jessie May Dicker- son, daughter of Samuel C. and Mary (McCoy)

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Dickerson, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of Charles C. Dickerson of Cadiz. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have two children-Allen W., born June 13, 1895, and Dorothy D., born August 5, 1897. Allen W. Scott was one of the gallant young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military service in the great World war. He entered service on the 21st of Sep- tember, 1917, and at Camp Sherman was as- signed to Company L, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment of Infantry, from which he was later transferred to the Three Hundred and Eighth Motor Supply Train, with which latter organization he was associated in driving motor trucks from Detroit to Baltimore, and within a period of three months he made three such overland trips. On the 13th of June, 1918 (his birthday) he sailed for France from the port of the City of Boston and after landing at Liverpool he proceeded with his command to France. There he was stationed with his motor-supply organization at LeMons. and he made the return trip to the United States on the George Washington, which was conveying President Wilson on his homeward voyage after his participation in the councils in Paris. Mr. Scott served as duty sergeant and convoy in France, and on the return voyage on the George Washington he was assistant to the detail and mess officer, with special privileges on board. He is now associated with his father in busi- ness at Germano. He is a member of Post No. 34, American Legion, of Cadiz. He was raised in Unionport Lodge No. 333, F. & A. M., on December 9, 1916; created Grand Elect Mason in Corson Lodge of Perfection (14° S. R.) on November 6, 1919; Prince of Jerusalem, Cutler Council (16° S. R.) on November 7, 1919; Knight of Rose Croix (18º S. R.) in Drummond Chapter on November 7, 1919; Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret (32º S. R.), Lake Erie Consistory, on November 14 1919. While serv- ing with the American Expeditionary Force in France he was a member of LeMons (France) Sea and Field Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., and also a member of the American Masonic Club at LeMons, France. He is also a member of Hopewell Lodge No. 276 I. O. O. F. at Jewett. On October 14, 1920, he was married to Miss Bessie, the daughter of Robert and Nancy (Work) Long, of Cadiz, Ohio.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 69

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Number of Pages: 678

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 678